Chapter 7-7- Master's Training
As the biggest survival crisis was resolved, Yvette, who had been anxious before, suddenly relaxed. She felt that she had never been so calm as she was now, and even time became a little worthless.
In fact, considering that the original owner was an immortal monster who had lived for at least three hundred years, time might really be the most insignificant thing to her.
Of course, the premise is that she is truly immortal and not just able to withstand hunger.
Finding a metal chair that was still standing and sitting down, Yvette fell into deep thought as she looked at the pile of bones left by an unknown mysterious monster on the ground.
"According to the clues provided by the dream, the original owner should indeed be a patient of the Transformation Project. This can be confirmed from many details of his life during those six months..."
"Later, the original owner possessed abilities that seemed to indicate immortality. Does this mean that the original owner's special abilities originated from the Transformation Project, or some experimental project at Black Tower Medicine?"
"But what's puzzling is that over such a long period of time, even through meditation, he should have accumulated considerable magical power. Why is it that, aside from his immortality and ability to withstand hunger, he is just like an ordinary person in every other way?"
"Could it be that due to the limitations of the experiment, they were afraid that the original owner would get out of control, so they deliberately prohibited the original owner from gaining power. Then the apocalypse suddenly broke out, the base was destroyed, and it unexpectedly became the current state..."
Unable to figure it out and without collecting any relevant clues, Yvette could only maintain this conclusion for the time being.
Soon, many details about the meditation method emerged in her mind.
Yes, when she was not worried about survival, had plenty of time, and had nothing to do, using meditation to improve her strength was undoubtedly her best idea to escape from the ruined base.
"It's a bit slow, but it's okay. What I have the most right now is time." She whispered, then closed her eyes and entered a meditative state.
The room fell silent, with only a faint light still flowing regularly under the skin of the magic vine, as if it would never change.
…
In the boundless silence and darkness, the world outside the ruins saw the sun rise and the moon set, and before anyone knew it, a year had passed.
During this year, Yvette has completely adapted to life in the ruins base. She spends most of her time meditating hard, absorbing the free magical elements in the air. In her spare time, she walks around the floors, tidying up, and sorting the rags she picks up into three categories: useful, useless, and uncertain.
Sometimes, she would secretly open the small exit door of the water platform, but would not go near the lake. She would just sit quietly at the door, looking at the clear sky outside, or the starry sky, and miss her relatives on Earth.
Sometimes, she would sit on the steps in the exit tunnel and read in the sunlight coming in from outside. At first, it was "Detailed Explanation of Inner and Outer Magic", and later it was "Rune Siphon Effect", all of which were magic-related reference books she found in the library.
The content of "Detailed Explanation of Internal and External Magic" is that on this planet called "Origin Star", the magic of all magical creatures, including humans, is divided into two types: one is the internal magic stored in the body, and the other is the external magic with the help of the external environment.
Therefore, when casting a spell, the more internal magic power the magic relies on, the easier it is to control, and vice versa.
"Rune Siphon Effect" is similar to the magic side of gravity. It explains why the magical elements on the planet will not be lost into the universe by explaining the attraction of the high-density rune magic field.
Anyway, they are all good books.
It was a bit difficult for a beginner to master it, and it took her several months. She also learned some relatively rare technical terms in Kuroshio language.
Then, when she finished reading the second book, "Rune Siphon Effect", it happened to be an afternoon at the end of the first year.
In the winter's chill, fine, still snow fell like willow catkins, coating the once black water platform with a layer of silver frost. The lake nearby was calm, and the monsters seemed to have slept. Only the lonely chirping of birds echoed in the desolate and vast mountaintop basin.
Closing the book, Yvette stood at the door, lost in thought as she remembered something, until the snow fell on the tip of her nose, causing her to sneeze.
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Due to wind pressure, there is often cold wind in the ventilation ducts in winter. On the negative tenth floor of the abandoned base, Yvette collected all the small garbage she found that could prevent the wind and made a simple windproof and thermal insulation layer.
Hiding here to avoid the cold, Yvette was still wearing the same white dress and white tights she wore a year ago.
She found that her skin was neither oily nor dandruff-free, and her clothes rarely got dirty, so they rarely needed to be washed.
At this time, she had been practicing for a year, so she planned to test her magic power in a while to see how her practice "results" were.
Recalling the data provided by the AI, the standard for an entry-level spellcaster is 10 magic points, and using meditation requires more than seven years of practice.
So essentially, the normal efficiency of meditation is 1.5 per year?
Is this too slow?
but……
Having said that, Yvette still had some unnecessary expectations in her heart.
Well, according to the calculation, it's 1.5 per year, yes, but that's the average person's meditation efficiency. And is she an average person? Absolutely not, right? Not only is she not, she might even be the chosen one!
Would a meditation method that was ineffective for others be any different for her?
Then……
She recited the entry-level magic she had read from "Basic Theory of Magic", which was specifically used to test her magic power. After waiting for a while, she was shocked to find that her test result was only a little over 2 points - considering that she did not eat, drink or work, and had more time for practice every day, her actual efficiency was just like that of an ordinary person.
"So I'm just a mortal..."
After waiting for so long, this was the result. For a moment, Yvette was heartbroken and felt that the world had become dark.
But fortunately, she can still hold on.
For someone who's suspected of being immortal, nothing is impossible! What talent doesn't allow her to gain, she makes up for through hard work!
So, that's it.
Spring goes and autumn comes, time passes, and five years have passed quietly in day after day of meditation and research.
During these five years, in addition to meditating to improve her magic, Yvette also compiled a series of professional books on magic that she had collected from various floors. Although most of the books involved advanced fields and the professional content left her completely in the dark, she still gained something when she persevered.
For example, you can obtain some simple rune arrangements from a case template, or learn the basic architecture and infer simple rune formulas from it.
It’s worth mentioning that chanting mantras is not actually necessary for casting spells, and even mantras are not equivalent to runes.
In the research of the human civilization on the Origin Star - referred to as the "Origin Civilization" - the number of known runes alone exceeds 10,000. These runes can be combined with each other to create "substances" and "elements" with vastly different properties.
Therefore, for beginners, simply distinguishing these tens of thousands of runes is a difficult problem.
So, in order to ensure that spells can be cast even without remembering the runes, "spells" were born.
It's a bit like an encrypted translation of a rune, with slight modifications added to make the spell smoother and easier to remember. If you know the rune form and go over it in your head, you can cast the spell without chanting. However, if you don't know the rune, you can still cast the magic by chanting the translated scale and supplementing it with mental power.
For Yvette, who was still a beginner, using spells was obviously much easier than memorizing tens of thousands of abstract symbols.
"Breath of cold mist, tears of spirits, bound by blizzards, guided by thoughts, Niflheim, heed my call!"
Standing on the water platform, Yvette chanted a spell and stretched out her white hands to grab forward. Not long after, an ice crystal with a diameter of about one meter condensed on the metal wall in front of her.
After the spell was finished, Yvette estimated the loss of magic power in her body and roughly determined that this simple "Frost Spell" had used up 3 points of magic power - and now the total magic power in her body was only about 9 points, and this small magic had used up one third of it.
"There's too little magic power..." she sighed.
The mage has been practicing for six years, and he can only use four small magics despite trying his best. This growth rate is really a bit overwhelming.
Fortunately, she is the king of endurance. If it were an ordinary person, he would have started fighting long ago.
Without any other thoughts, Yvette turned and left.
But the moment she turned around, her peripheral vision caught sight of the ice crystals that had just been created on the wall, causing her movements to pause slightly.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but in the refraction of the ice crystals, she felt that she seemed to have grown a little.
(End of this chapter)
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